Lady Audley’s Secret

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Description

The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon’Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair’In this outlandish, outrageous triumph of scandal fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful – and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her? A huge success in the nineteenth century, the book’s anti-heroine – with her good looks and hidden past – embodied perfectly the concerns of the Victorian age with morality and madness.The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Additional information

Weight0.351 kg
Dimensions2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0141198842

About The Author

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) first burst onto the public scene at the age of eight when she played the role of 'Fairy Pineapple' in a pantomime. In a long career of overwhelming activity she edited magazines and wrote at least seventy-five novels, including such unrevived works as The Octoroon, Publicans and Sinners and Dead-Sea Fruit but also including the phenomenal Lady Audley's Secret which made her, at the age of twenty-seven, rich for life.

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